The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1909) (14597443979)

Identifier: baronialecclesia00bill (find matches)
Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 Wiston-Glyn, A. W
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: Edinburg T.N. Foulis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL instead of being corbelled upon the tower, which is finished by being simplysloped off to the wall, leaving as a questionable feature what has evidentlybeen a change from the original design.* Auchans is about four miles fromTroon, and stands in the parish of Dundonald. It has upon its walls thedate of erection, 1644; but its materials were in use long before that period,having been removed from the old castle of Dundonald, whose shapelessruins, in the immediate vicinity, still attest a once extensive and interestingfortress, the more interesting as belonging to a class of which Coxton, nearElgin, is now the somewhat diminutive type ; for the fire-proof castle wenow speak of as in ruins must have been six times the extent of the morenortherly and complete fortification. * Even when the old architects made actual misukes they were not ashamed but left them distinctlyvisible. They knew the power of general effect too well to care much about minor faults. \ U
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ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 29 Cathedral of 5t. Andrews